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A comic book shop in Hollywood supposedly hides one of the world's biggest comedy fanatics. Somewhere in line for a stand-up show, among Justice League omnibuses and vintage Dr. Who figurines, is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, inked with a mysterious symbol. Blood in, blood out. That's the comedy...

“I’m a little afraid if I drink too much I might need to piss. What if I have to pee in the middle of the date?” This won’t be the last time we hear this question tonight. The guy posing it is a 28-year-old post-production manager from Chicago named Mike,...

Soon after moving to L.A. in early 2002, Matt Besser did what most New York comedy transplants do: He went to an open mic at a coffee shop. "The woman running the night recognized me from my Comedy Central show, but when I asked to sign up, she said, 'Oh,...

There are strange limbs and skinlike canvases on view downtown this week, a group of girls do improv on the Eastside, and experimental poetry fills a Hollywood gallery. 5. Break on through Girl Crush, a troupe of artist-actor-comedians specializing in long-form improv, is sort of radical, maybe in a Parker...

Between rehearsals for an upcoming show at Largo, actor/comedian Maya Rudolph’s bandmate Gretchen Lieberum admits that the night she saw Prince’s Purple Rain for the first time was also the night she started puberty. When Rudolph saw the epic ‘80s movie in Westwood at age 12, her life was forever...

As we prepare to bid farewell to Late Show with David Letterman, let's take a moment to appreciate one of the show's most underrated contributions to popular culture, and unlikeliest of hip-hop icons, the much-missed Letterman sidekick Calvert DeForest, better known to fans as Larry "Bud" Melman. Wait... hip-hop icon? Yes. Allow...